Blood pressure and cognition: factors that may account for their inconsistent association

Melinda C PowerFrom the aDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA bDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA cDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA dVeterans Affairs Normative Aging Study, Boston, MA and 5Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MAEpidemiology 24:886-93. 2013

Lead exposure and tremor among older men: the VA normative aging study

..APOE is the biomarker with the greatest known influence on cognitive function; however, the effect of complex haplotypes involving polymorphisms rs449647, rs405509, rs440446, rs429358 and rs7412 has never been studied in older populations...

Blood pressure and cognition: factors that may account for their inconsistent association

Melinda C PowerFrom the aDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA bDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA cDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA dVeterans Affairs Normative Aging Study, Boston, MA and 5Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MAEpidemiology 24:886-93. 2013

..We evaluated evidence supporting three potential explanations for this variation: an effect of hypertension duration, an effect of age at hypertension initiation, and selection bias due to dependent censoring...

Lead exposure and tremor among older men: the VA normative aging study

..The aim of this study was to investigate whether mtDNA haplogroups determined differential susceptibility to cognitive effects of long-term exposure to black carbon (BC), a marker of traffic-related air pollution...